The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Women read each other at a single glance.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.